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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Variable labels in regression mobile tables (output) as in checked in options

Now variable name used in tables even "labels" setting used in options. Add new checkbox for variable naming for regression tables or make it behavior more general.
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration

Change datatype of uploaded datafile

Change datatype of uploaded datafile After uploaded an uploaded datafile, a column has assigned the wrong datatype. It is string format but must be integer format
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable RENAME TABLE on tables with triggers

SAP is working on enable the Zero Downtime solution (ZDO), which uses RENAME TABLE to switch between old and new table definitions, also for SAP systems that use a sidecar (SAP SLT - System Landscape Transformation). For SLT, SAP defines triggers ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Additional "stats" Table Metrics

For operations and KPI management, having some additional metrics in the various stats tables is important. For our use here, it would be helpful to have the following metrics: Pend Time Metrics: (eligible based upon job class not LSF setting)* av...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Add Exasol to the supported Databases

Currently IBM Modeler does not support Exasol as Database. But we are able to connect the Database with an native ODBC-driver. Given the case we are forced to use Exasol instead of Oracle-DB, we will loose a lot of Performance. Exasol tried to fix...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

AWS IAM Role Compatibility with S3 Connections

Problem Statement/Pain Points: We work with a government agency who has specific security requirements and we are utilizing Cloud Pak for Data within their environment. They have a need for utilizing S3 Data Connections to resources in AWS GovClou...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

TM1 Web should have the same set editor as PAW

As we have multiple templates built in TM1 Perspectives and presented in PAW, those templates ultimately use the TM1 Web set editor which is different than the set editor presented in PAW. For consistency, the set editor should match.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide the http ports from backend of the IBM Product Master Operator

In the current IPM Operator, the deployed IPM application connects to URL with HTTPS however the backend connection happens with HTTP port. The client wants to prevent any exposed open http port. They would like to have frontend and backend to con...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration